Jon Snyder (PhD, U of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2008) is an adjunct professor of Spanish literary and cultural studies in Madrid, Spain. He is the author of Poetics of Opposition in Contemporary Spain: Politics and the Work of Urban Culture (Hispanic Urban Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), which argues that recent cultural production—photography, theatre, video performance, and fanzine poetry—grapples with the conditions and possibilities for social transformation in dialogue with the ongoing crisis, neoliberal governance, and political culture in Spain's democratic history. He has published several articles on Spanish photography, the Transición to democracy, and an entry on Spanish cinema for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Film. Snyder teaches in Madrid for ACCENT International, Boston University, and State University of New York at Albany, and has been a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Cornell University Madrid summer program in recent years. He was also Visiting Scholar through the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University (NYU) at Washington Square and the MA Coordinator at NYU Madrid. His former work experience includes freelance collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía, PHotoEspaña Festival, and Madrid-based artists, among others.Research areas: contemporary Spanish literary & cultural studies, visual arts, modernization and urban studies, critical theory, affect (cultural theory), social mobilizationsSelection of courses in Spanish & English:

Perspectives on Spain in Space, Culture, Everyday Life

Negotiating Identities in Madrid: Gender & Sexuality in Urban Space

Critical Aesthetics of Contemporary Spanish Culture

From Dictatorship to Democracy: Social Revolutions

Gender and Politics in 20th & 21st c. Spain

Mass Communication & Society: Media & Social Change in Spain and the US